Arithmetical Functions

by Wolfgang Schwarz, Jürgen Spilker

Overview

The theme of this book is the characterization of certain multiplicative and additive arithmetical functions by combining methods from number theory with some simple ideas from functional and harmonic analysis. The authors achieve this goal by considering convolutions of arithmetical functions, elementary mean-value theorems, and properties of related multiplicative functions. They also prove the mean-value theorems of Wirsing and Halász and study the pointwise convergence of the Ramanujan expansion. Finally, some applications to power series with multiplicative coefficients are included, along with exercises and an extensive bibliography.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521427258
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	03/10/1994
Series:	London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series , #184
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Notation; 1. Tools from number theory; Photographs; 2. Mean-value theorems and multiplicative functions, I; 3. Related arithmetical functions; 4. Uniformly almost-periodic arithmetical functions; 5. Ramanujan Expansions of functions in Bu; 6. Almost-periodic and almost-even arithmetical functions; Photographs; 7. The theorems of Elliott and Daboussi; 8. Ramanujan expansions; 9. Mean-value theorems and multiplicative functions, II; Photographs; Appendix; Bibliography; Author index; Subject index; Photographs; Acknowledgements.

Editorial Reviews

"...a pleasant, courteous, thorough introduction to some of the more civilized areas of number theory, especially spaces of arithmetical functions and allied subjects...downright readable, and a book to be owned by every library, without question." The Bulletin of Mathematics Books

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